It was suggested that I should set the record straight with regard to what I mean by "meaningless statistics".

This is what the cpan-testers report about my Win32::Fmode module:

CPAN Testers PASS (2) FAIL (3) NA (7)

And the associated graphic.

So, it looks like that module has more fails than passes and a preponderance of orange and red.

But of course, any human tester would instantly recognise that an module called Win32::... isn't going to build on Darwin, FreeBSD or Linux.....which is why I assumed that these must be test bots.

Do you still consider my drawing the conclusion that these were bots producing meaningless statistics "impolite"?

My li'l 'ol module served it purpose and was long ago superceded, but how many other authors hard work are these meaningless numbers damaging?